April 2008

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I have to admit that I am addicted to Papertrey products and this card is made entirely from their products. Recently they came out with paper, inks and ribbons that all match and coordinate. Couple that with their stamp set that is all dots and I'm in heaven! Aren't these yummy colors? This is similar to a card Nichole Heady did on their site that created the look of all patterned paper with the dots. Love this look....

Supplies: All Papertrey! Except the scalloped punch that is Marvy. :-)

Monday, April 28, 2008

OK, so it's not new... and I have used it before... but I'm finding myself using it alot lately. I know, I'm a little late to the party. But I'm loving playing with it. Yes, another Mother's Day card! :-)

Saturday, April 26, 2008

of the green and blue background parts for a custom order for the birdie cards I posted earlier this month. Decided to turn it into a Mother's Day card. Simple -- but has my favorite color combo. Sorry that all I'm doing is Mother's Day cards right now! Trying to keep my inventory up on Etsy -- they are selling as fast as I can make them.

Friday, April 25, 2008

I'm just realizing how hooked I am on SEI paper right now -- this is another one from them. So cool! A little funky and fun. Not your typical mothery card but what the heck! I stamped on the background green paper to create a really subtle pattern. The scalloped circle is chipboard, painted to match.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Uh.. yes. Sorry! :-) Trying to use it up since it is SO pretty. Hard to tell but the front of this card is not as wide as the back. The blue actually shows from the inside so when you open it the felt flower is on the inside.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

The thought running through my head as I created this one.... :-) I had absolutely no idea where I was going with this stuff when I started attaching things to the notecard. I hope it doesn't LOOK like that as a result. heehee I've had this patterned paper awhile and thought it looked so Mothery --- pretty and feminine.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

I've always loved cherry things. My sister lives in Traverse City, the cherry capital of the world so I think that's where it started! Just a simple card -- love this color combo. I stamped the cherries twice. Once on the white paper and then colored them in. Then I stamped it again, colored it in, cut out the cherries and put it in top of the first image with pop dots and then covered the cherries with glitter.

Monday, April 21, 2008

I just got back from a very fun weekend retreat in Indiana. Good friends, good food, laughing, and creativity. The best! Here's a picture of the gang. It was really hard to leave...

The gang (sort of from left to right regardless of row! :-) ): Michele, Sally, Greta, Karen, Connie (two of them!), Ginger, Jennifer, and yours truly.

Most of the weekend I worked on a large custom order from an Etsy customer so I was mostly producing, not creating. But I did get a chance to make a couple of Mother's Day cards today before we left using the fun new SEI paper.

Friday, April 18, 2008

For those of you who visit my buddy Jennifer McGuire's blog on a regular basis (and if you aren't you are REALLY missing out! :-) ), she recently posted a narrow card. She does this alot with something hanging off the edge and it's always so cute! So I thought I'd give it a try...

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Have you used Souffle pens? If you check out Jennifer McGuire's blog here you will see that she admits that it's her fault that I have to have everything fun that there is to have --- enabler! :-) It has nothing to do with my lack of restraint -- it's all her! :-) And this is one of those things that she played with and then I HAD to have them. :-) They're really cool -- they create a bit of a raised, puffy look. So cool! I love the look on black. I think the contrast is really pretty. I used them to fill in the flowers on this card.